- Film Review
- Reviewed By David Parkinson
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4 out of 5
Fritz Lang always liked to boast that the second part of his celebrated crime trilogy was such a calculated insult to the Nazis that he feared for his life. Always one to embroider his own legend, Lang was nevertheless correct in claiming that the depiction of a master criminal who hypnotised people into doing his evil bidding was a bit near the knuckle for Goebbels, who had the film banned. Yet Lang's wife and co-scenarist, Thea von Harbou, was a committed Nazi who refused to follow her husband into French exile. Whatever the motivational truth, this is still a dark tale, told with atmospheric panache.
Plot Summary
The legendary criminal mastermind, now confined in an asylum, hypnotises his psychiatrist and inaugurates a fresh reign of terror. Thriller, directed and co-written by Fritz Lang and starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge and Gustav Diessl.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Dr Mabuse
- Rudolf Klein-Rogge
- Insp Karl Lohmann
- Otto Wernicke
- Professor Baum
- Oscar Beregi (1)
- Thomas Kent
- Gustav Diessl
- Lilli
- Wera Liessem
- Hofmeister
- Karl Meixner
- Hardy
- Rudolf Schündler
- Bredow
- Oskar Höcker
- Karetzky
- Theo Lingen
- Nicolai Grigoriew
- Hadrian M Netto
- Printer
- Paul Henckels
- Blackmailer
- Paul Bernd
- Cop
- Henry Pless
- Dr Hause
- A E Licho
- Dr Kramm
- Theodor Loos
Crew
- Director
- Fritz Lang
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